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Drive sales this Garden Re-Leaf Day with a Greenfingers product display - over 100 garden centres already signed up for a FUNdraising event
More names sign up to the 2020 Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk & Cycle Challenge
February sales down by 22% - GTN Bestsellers EPOS data analysis
Work starts on £1.5m Fron Goch expansion after MSC planning win
Melcourt Bag for Life wins New Product Award
Notcutts St Albans celebrates official opening of new-look garden centre and restaurant
Christmas comes early for Greenfingers thanks to Primeur’s latest fundraising donation
Taylors Bulbs make donation to The Greenfingers Charity
Sandy Powell's star-signed suit will help save Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage and garden for the nation
Worcester centre extension project beats February weather
Cobra commits to cordless evolution
New HTA campaign revives autumn planting message
Squire's donates 300 silver birches for local green spaces
Fun plans for Children's Gardening Week
TV's Katie teams up with Tong for fourth year
Quality audience shines through at Classiflora Open Days
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Mairi Devlin joins British Garden Centres
Growing Media 5% higher than average for February
Business Person of the Year Award for Hillmount's Robin Mercer
Wyevale Nurseries granted licence to propagate Lomandra ‘White Sands’
Better than Beast from the East...just!
Ex-Miracle-Gro man cancels early retirement to back Natural Grower's sales drive
Garden Products down by 18% on last year
Darlac appoints JBM Sales to cover south-west
Wet February sends veg sales down by 20%
Dobbies sign up with SmartPlant
February Wild Bird Care sales down again
HTA launches industry e-learning app
More emphasis on growers' role at next Plantarium
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Tackling the big garden industry issue: growing media and peat...what happens next?
Garden centre boss who stole almost half a million pounds has hearing adjourned
Gina and John heading to Monte Carlo in £500 banger
Great start to a new season for Durstons
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Christmas Grotto Gift Books
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
Woodworks Garden Centre Cafe wins prestigious award
Tasty opportunity for garden centre catering teams
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More names sign up to the 2020 Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk & Cycle Challenge

 

The 2020 Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk and Cycle Challenge on Friday (13th March) is hotting up with several new names signing up to take part in the event, including some fabulous brands supporting with sponsorship.

 

Whether participants are doing a 10-mile walk, or hitting the 100km mark on their bikes, it’s safe to presume that a refreshment along the way will be hugely appreciated. Thankfully this year the kind folks at Hozelock have confirmed their sponsorship of the water stations throughout the course. Back at the end point at Chilton Garden Centre, the team at LOFA will be providing further refreshments, including a glass of fizz to celebrate another fabulous event., whilst Outback will be providing one of its barbeques so that the walkers and cyclists can enjoy a mouth-watering snack after their exertions.

 

Of course, the event wouldn’t be possible without those willing to get out of the office and into their walking boots and cycling shorts! Recent sign-ups for the 2020 walk include Millbrook Garden Centre’s Tammy and Ben Woodhouse, St Peter’s Garden Centre’s Director Will Blake, independent business consultant (previously Millbrook) Liz Dowling, teams from Evergreen Garden Care and Kelkay and, as well as Greenfingers’s very own Garden Project Manager, Holly Harrington. Holly will be joined on the day by her younger brother, who is planning on running the 20-mile route.

 

Talking about her involvement in the 2020 event, Holly said: “I’ve been working at Greenfingers Charity now for just over a year and in that time the demand for our support and the number of projects continues to grow. I joined the charity because I believe in its ethos, the fundamental need for everyone to have access to inspiring outdoor spaces that allow moments to escape our own situations; an opportunity to take a deep breath and spend time with our families and friends. When I see up close the difference that the spaces we provide in children’s hospices make to the children, their families and the staff that support them, there really isn’t a choice to be made as to whether to help fund these spaces or not, it’s become a job requirement! 

 

 

About the Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk & Cycle Challenge

The annual event, designed to raise funds for Greenfinger Charity whilst also kickstarting the gardening season, has become a popular date in the calendar and this year is set to be no different.

 

Starting and ending at the newly acquired by main event sponsor, British Garden Centres’ Chilton Garden Centre, the walk and cycle routes will take participants on a stunning tour of the Chiltern Hills, a designated area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Walkers can choose to explore a 10- or 20-mile route, whilst cyclists will embark upon either a 25, 50, 75 or 100km route (or as many times round the 25km route as they can muster!) that will take in the 276m elevation that enables the Chilterns to provide stunning views across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

 

A superb networking opportunity, the Garden Re-Leaf Walk and Cycle Challenge is popular with teams from across the supply chain who want to come together to enjoy some out-of-office team building. The event also welcomes individuals from a wide range of suppliers and retailers, who quickly find their ‘team’ along the way. Previous participants have confirmed that the event has seen new friendships and new business relationships forged.

 

To date, eager teams from Hornby Whitefoot PR, Deco-Pak, Glee, GIMA, DAC Ltd, Poplars Garden Centre, Ames, Cadix, Vitax, Kew Green Hotels, Taylors Bulbs, Abacus Cards, and Mr Fothergillshave all signed up or pledged their support to take part in the sponsored walk or cycle challenge, whilst Evergreen Garden Care, Farplants and Westland have confirmed that they will be making their debut at the 2020 event. In 2019 over 100 people took part in the walk, with more showed real pedal power by taking part in the cycle challenge. However, for 2020 the Greenfingers team is hoping to exceed these numbers.

 

Those interested in taking on the Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk and Cycle Challenge can register by visiting https://www.greenfingerscharity.org.uk/gardenreleaf.

 

If you want to find out more about how to get involved in Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day 2020, whether by putting on events in your garden centre, through sponsored solo activities or simply by donating - contact the Greenfingers office on 01494 674749 or email Linda@greenfingerscharity.org.uk.

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